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Talented teens named to Glassell School of Art’s advanced program
A baker’s dozen of teen-aged students has been named to The Glassell School of Art’s Advanced Curriculum for Teens program.
Called ACT Glassell, the scholarship-funded program provides fine-arts curriculum to select creative high school students for up to four years. Once chosen for the program, they pursue all facets of contemporary artistic practice in weekend classes held during the fall and spring semesters.
“ACT Glassell is a great opportunity to provide these young, talented artists a chance to study art at the professional level and begin to network within the art world,” said Valerie Loupe Olsen, Glassell’s associate director. “We have a wonderful mix of students from a broad range of backgrounds, all of whom are talented, dedicated artists. I’m looking forward to the fourth year of this program.”
Among the 13 new students admitted to the program this year are:
Will Schorre of the Rice Village area, a student at Woods High School at School of the Woods.
Arnold Gonzales from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Jiexin Xiang of Bellaire High School.
Other students include Houston ISD students LeRoy Lathon, Lisa Mendoza and Daniella Meshackins; Chris Elkins of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD; Fernanda Huerta of Katy ISD; Briarwood School’s Ashley Ackerman and William Merrill; home-schooled students Autumn Rojas and Charles McCormick; and KIPP Academy Houston’s Jacqueline Khong.
Each spring, ACT Glassell’s selection committee of curators, artists, area school district art supervisors and art professionals picks a new class of scholarship recipients to begin the program.
Applicants submit art and statements of intent, which are reviewed by the committee for creative thinking, verbal skills, seriousness of intent and talent. Finalists are interviewed. Eighth-graders, who will be entering ninth grade at the start of the ACT Glassell semester, are eligible to apply.
“I consider the ACT Glassell program to be an incredible life-changing opportunity,” said Autumn Rojas. “As a home schooled [student] I am looking to advance my study of the arts, [and] I believe that ACT Glassell would greatly enhance my academic knowledge and artist’s skills, providing me with the tools to pursue a degree and career in the visual arts.”
In a new sponsorship, Houston Livestock and Rodeo is funding one of the ACT Glassell positions. The program also receives funding from the Stillman-Lack Foundation, the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation and the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation.
The Glassell School of Art is the teaching wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
ACT Glassell applications for the next round of consideration are due March 23.
For information or to download an application form, visit www.mfah.org. Follow the Education/Programs link to Art Classes at the Glassell School to ACT Glassell.
Called ACT Glassell, the scholarship-funded program provides fine-arts curriculum to select creative high school students for up to four years. Once chosen for the program, they pursue all facets of contemporary artistic practice in weekend classes held during the fall and spring semesters.
“ACT Glassell is a great opportunity to provide these young, talented artists a chance to study art at the professional level and begin to network within the art world,” said Valerie Loupe Olsen, Glassell’s associate director. “We have a wonderful mix of students from a broad range of backgrounds, all of whom are talented, dedicated artists. I’m looking forward to the fourth year of this program.”
Among the 13 new students admitted to the program this year are:
Will Schorre of the Rice Village area, a student at Woods High School at School of the Woods.
Arnold Gonzales from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Jiexin Xiang of Bellaire High School.
Other students include Houston ISD students LeRoy Lathon, Lisa Mendoza and Daniella Meshackins; Chris Elkins of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD; Fernanda Huerta of Katy ISD; Briarwood School’s Ashley Ackerman and William Merrill; home-schooled students Autumn Rojas and Charles McCormick; and KIPP Academy Houston’s Jacqueline Khong.
Each spring, ACT Glassell’s selection committee of curators, artists, area school district art supervisors and art professionals picks a new class of scholarship recipients to begin the program.
Applicants submit art and statements of intent, which are reviewed by the committee for creative thinking, verbal skills, seriousness of intent and talent. Finalists are interviewed. Eighth-graders, who will be entering ninth grade at the start of the ACT Glassell semester, are eligible to apply.
“I consider the ACT Glassell program to be an incredible life-changing opportunity,” said Autumn Rojas. “As a home schooled [student] I am looking to advance my study of the arts, [and] I believe that ACT Glassell would greatly enhance my academic knowledge and artist’s skills, providing me with the tools to pursue a degree and career in the visual arts.”
In a new sponsorship, Houston Livestock and Rodeo is funding one of the ACT Glassell positions. The program also receives funding from the Stillman-Lack Foundation, the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation and the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation.
The Glassell School of Art is the teaching wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
ACT Glassell applications for the next round of consideration are due March 23.
For information or to download an application form, visit www.mfah.org. Follow the Education/Programs link to Art Classes at the Glassell School to ACT Glassell.
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